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[ABCDE] VOLUME 8, ISSUE 3 Day of Wrath Visions, Villas and Vesuvius HUNTINGTON LIBRARY INSIDE Plan a Trip Make a D.C. and Day of 9 to Campania 10 Mosaic 13 Mosaics 19 Wrath NOVEMBER 5, 2008 © 2008 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 8, ISSUE 3 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program About Day of Wrath Lesson: The influence of ancient Greece on A Sunday Style & Arts review of the National Gallery of Art the Roman Empire and Western civilization exhibit, “Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around can be seen in its impact on the arts that the Bay of Naples,” and a Travel article, featuring the villas remain in contemporary society. near Vesuvius, are the stimulus for this month’s Post NIE online Level: Low to high guide. This is the first exhibition of Roman antiquities at the Subjects: Social Studies, Art National Gallery. Related Activity: Mathematics, English “The lost-found story of Pompeii, which seemed to have a moral — of confidence destroyed and decadence chastised — appeared ideally devised for the ripe Victorian mind.” But its influence did not stop in 19th-century England. Pompeian influences exist in the Library of Congress, the Senate Appropriations Committee room and around D.C. We provide resources to take a Road Trip (or Metro ride) to some of these places. Although the presence of Vesuvius that destroyed and preserved a way of life is not forgotten, the visitor to the exhibit is taken by the garden of rosemary and laurel, the marble and detailed craftsmanship, the frescos and mosaics. Interdisciplinary possibilities abound — science and archeology, history and mythology, art and architecture, literature and movies. The Greek-inspired art found in the Roman villas could provide activities in sculpture, fresco and relief. Instead we focus on mosaic art that younger and older students can easily produce. Mosaics are found throughout Italy — in Aquileia, Morano, Ravenna and Venice. We focus on those discovered mostly on the floors of Pompeian homes. NIE Online Guide A reminder to Post INSIDE program teachers: If you plan Editor — Carol Lange to use articles in this guide in the e-Replica format more Art Editor — Carol Porter than three months after their publication date, remember to bookmark them to use this school year. “Opulence and Contributing to this guide: Gene Sterud, e- Destruction in Pompeii” in this guide focuses on the former archaeologist and mosaic artist Replica content, illustrations and layout of “Day of Wrath.” and teacher, provided expert advice and a copy of “Mosaics of the Washington, D.C., Area” and “Choose Your Own Metro Mosaic Adventure.” Send comments about this guide to: Margaret Kaplow, Educational Services COVER PHOTO: Joseph Wright’s “Vesuvius From Portici,” circa 177-177, Manager, [email protected] one of the many painted spectacles recreating the erupton after Pompeii and Herculaneum had been excavated a few decades earlier. 2 November 5, 2008 © 2008 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 8, ISSUE 3 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program Day of Wrath: Visions, Villas and Vesuvius On the Web A study of Roman civilization includes the influence of Greek www.nga.gov/exhibitions/pompeiiinfo.shtm civilization, their shared artistic tastes and cultural ideals. A look Pompeii and the Roman Villa at the sumptuous villas preserved in Pompeii with their gardens and National Gallery of Art exhibit overview; elegant interior courtyards, colonnaded walkways situated to take video, slideshows and Children’s Discovery advantage of the sea breeze, and decorated interiors gives insight into Guide (pdf) which is an excellent resource for the values of the leaders and life of those who served them. Tours, real a study of life, art and architecture, history, and virtual, allow us to see the art, consider the culture and realize and Greek influence its impact. www.fieldmuseum.org/pompeii/ Revisit Vesuvius and Volcanoes Pliny the Younger relates the Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption The rich soil of the Bay of Naples eruption, sharing his viewing of Web exhibit from 2005-06 museum exhibit region and its agricultural products Vesuvius from the northern tip of includes interactive timeline, volcanism, are evidence of its volcanic past. the Bay of Naples and reports from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Vesuvius dominates the landscape. survivors at Herculaneum. Its conical structure was formed by Two of the earliest movies http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/1073_ material forced through vents in featuring volcanoes were The National_Archaeological_Museum.html the surface of the Earth. Erupting Last Days of Pompeii (1913), an National Archaeological Museum gases asphyxiated people as Italian silent film, and The Wrath Images of important finds of Pompeii and magma and debris covered most of the Gods (1914), another black- Herculaneum housed in the National Museum of the area, leaving evidence of and-white silent film, but about of Archaeology in Naples. Photo archive past inhabitation and eruptions, the destruction of Sakura-Jima, includes mosaics. including those before 79 AD. Japan. The following sites are This guide does not focus on good starting points for class study www.stabiae.com/fountation_site/usa/ volcanoes and the science involved. or enrichment assignments for index.html Nor do we present activities for students: Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation including the movies and literature Informative site on the Italian-U.S. cultural associated with Vesuvius and other http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/ project. The “Site and Villas” section has volcanoes. We encourage teachers LivingWith/PopCulture/movies. interactive map. in inter-disciplinary studies to html cover the creation of volcanoes Volcanoes in Historical and Popular www.lifeinitaly.com/art/stabiae.asp and their impact on ancient and Culture “In the Movies” Restoring Ancient Stabiae contemporary societies. The USGS Living With Volcanoes site Photographs, perspective on modern attempt U.S. Geological Service has a to unearth ancient Stabiae and information comprehensive archive of USGS www.victorianweb.org/authors/ about the Adopt-A-Fresco Campaign articles (www.usgs.gov/science/ bulwer/index.htm science.php?term=1209&type=feat Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/stabiae. ure) that is very helpful. Resources to use with Bulwer- html Look for the work of The Lytton’s novel The Last Days Ancient Rome’s Forgotten Paradise Washington Post’s science of Pompeii Smithsonian magazine article on this seaside reporters who cover volcanic villa’s archaeology project activity that impacts contemporary http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_ life. lesson_plan.asp?id=271 www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pompeii/ In Old Pompeii pmpMain.html Include Movies and Literature Lesson Plan from EdSiteMent: Unraveling Ancient Mysteries Letters provide a personal after a virtual field trip, students HMH textbook publisher provides basic eyewitness account of daily events write a travelogue modeled on Mark history and science of Herculaneum, Misenum that later can be great resources for Twain’s description of Pompeii and Stabiae, Vesuvius and Pompeii. historians and scientists. In his letters to the historian Tacitus, CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 3 November 5, 2008 © 2008 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 8, ISSUE 3 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 mosaics at the Baltimore Museum On the Web | continued of Art, from the second century AD Review AD 79 to the sixth century AD, illustrate ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/09/ Read “Day of Wrath,” a Post Style the influence of the classical art vesuvius/vesuvius-text.html & Arts article published on Sunday, of Greece and Rome on the early Vesuvius Countdown October 19, 2008. The review of Christian era. Recent discovery gives evidence to an the National Gallery of Art exhibit, Web sites (See “Mosaics”) and eruption before 79 AD “Pompeii and the Roman Villa” is books (See “Read About It” in included in this guide. mosaic tour booklet) listed in this http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/ Teachers who use the e-Replica guide provide information on the pompeii/pompeii.html edition of The Post may wish to history of mosaics, techniques, Pompeii: The Last Day use “Opulence and Destruction and examples of historic and Discovery Channel supplement to their in Pompeii,” questions to guide contemporary mosaic art. program and DVD, includes a virtual reading the article and viewing the volcano, Pompeii quiz and an eyewitness layout. In addition to the questions Take a Metro Ride account from 79 A.D. posed, discussion could focus Give students a map and “D.C. on popularizing Pompeii in the and Mosaics,” an annotated www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/zhomepage/ 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and booklet of places where mosaics herculaneum-uncovered influences of these archaeological can be found in the D.C.-Baltimore Secrets of the Dead discoveries on art and architecture Metropolitan area. Have students PBS online archive of series on of later periods. find each of the locations on the Herculaneum map. What would be a good route Produce Timelines to take to view some or all of the http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/ Students could work in teams, mosaics? Have Metro maps, bus Maecenas/italy_except_rome_and_sicily/ pairs or alone to create timelines. routes and street maps to assist in pompeii/section_contents.html They could be asked to read only this part of the assignment. Pompeii “Villas Come Alive 2,000 Years As we prepared this activity, Images of Ancient Greece and Rome: After Vesuvius” to get data for a mosaic artist and teacher Gene Pompeii, funded by classical associations timeline about Pompeii, to read Sterud shared “Mosaics of the only “Day of Wrath” or to read Washington, D.C., Area,” a guide to http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/ both. mosaics that was prepared for the Maecenas/italy_except_rome_and_sicily/ Teachers might have different 2005 Society of American Mosaic herculaneum/section_contents.html teams using different sources to Artists (SAMA) convention in D.C.

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